Ticket-holder for railroad-cars



(No Model.) I

J. B. McI-NTYRE.

TICKET HOLDER FOR RAILROAD CARS.

PatentedA WITNESSES:

ATTORIHIYS.

U ITED STATES PATENT @rrrcnt J OHN BANKS MOINTYRE, OF SALTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

TlCKET-HOLDER FOR RAILROAD-=CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,505, dated April 3, 1828.

Application filed December 29, 1887. Serial No. 259,306. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN Barns MolnTYeE, of Saltsburg, in the county of Indiana and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Ticket Check and Holder for Railroad-Oars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists in a novel device designed to beattached to railroad passengercars for holding and checking the tickets of the occupants of a car, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of the ticket check and holder in a raised position on the side of a car. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectionof a passenger-car body in part, with the ticket check and holder in a raised position on one side of the car and in a lowered position on the opposite side thereof. Figs. 3 and 4 are sections, upon a larger scale, of one of the ticket-receivers of the device, Fig. 3 being asection upon the line a: a: in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a section upon the line 3 g in Fig. l.

The device comprises a rod or shaft running lengthwise of the car and supported in suitable holders secured to the interior of each side of the car, said shaft carrying perforated ticket-receivers which, on turning the shaft in one direction, are lowered, and on turning the shaft in the opposite direction are raised, so as to be out of the way.

A A. are the longitudinal shafts or rods, litted to turn freely in plates Z), forming bearings arranged to project from base-plates c, said plates combined forming holders for the shafts or rods, and being secured to the sides B of the canhody at a suitable height above the car'seats.

Each shaft A has secured to it a series of arms, (1, each of which carries at its forward or outer end a flat ticket-receiver, G, of which there is supposed to be one for each double seat of the car and over or in line therewith. These ticket-receivers are of a hollow pocketlike construction, open at their one end, e, and

divided to accommodate two tickets one above the otherlhat is, one for each occupant of the double seat, said tickets f being inserted within and removed from the receiver O through its open end 6, and being. exposed for view when inserted through openings 9 in the ticket-receiver.

Each shaft A has an end crank or bent portiou, it, upon or with which a spring-catch, D, engages to hold the shaft in position that will keep the ticket-receivers O raised or out of the way, as shown in Fig. l and at the left hand of Fig. 2. Upon lilting this catch the ticket-receiversG-and their arms cl drop by the turning of the shaft into a forward position, as shown at the right hand of Fig. 2, the arms (1 then coming down upon rests or supports ion one side of the plates 1) of the shaft-holders,or certain of them.

The receiver-arms (I should be alternated to work on opposite sides of the several plates 12, or certain of them, to prevent the shaft A from shifting longitudinally when the car is started or reversed.

\Nhen a train leaves a station, each ticket check and holder should be raised, as shown in Fig. l and at the left-hand of Fig. 2. The conductor, entering the car, lowers the device on either side of the car, as shown at the right hand of Fig. 2, and sees at a glance, as he passes through the car, whether there are any passengers whose tickets, which, after being punched, are deposited in the ticket-receivers C, have not been lifted. These tickets he lifts or collects, and after punching them places them in their proper receivers G, or a check with the name and number of the station onto which the ticket is good. Afterlifting all the tickets in the car the conductor operates the device to raise the ticketreceivers, as in Fig. l and at the left hand of Fig. 2, so that said receivers will be out of the way of passengers in getting in and out of their seats. Before coming to a station the brakemen pass through their respective cars and note all tickets for that station, which tickets each brakeinan lifts or takes from their receivers and notifies the holders of them that the next stopping-place is their station.

By providing passenger-cars with a device or apparatus of the kind described the railroad company wili save money, as it will indicate that every fare is paid, and that there are no dead-heads in the seats; secondly, there will be less annoyance to passengers, as their tickets would be lifted but once while on the train, and they would be relieved from anxiety about missing their station, and might read, sleep, or otherwise occupy themselves, with the assurance that they would be notified before coming to their station; thirdly, the conductors would be saved trouble, inasmuch as they would have to lift the tickets but once, and as quickly as they passed through the car could see if there were any tickets not lifted; and,fourthly, conductors wouldhave no opportunity of defrauding, either in the way of not reporting fares collected or in passing friends free of charge. 7

Having thus fully described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. An apparatus or device for checking and holding tickets on railroad passenger-cars, consisting of a longitudinal shaft capable of turning in its bearings on either side of the car, and projecting perforated ticket receivers mounted on said shaft, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with shaft A and a se ries of holders forming bearings therefor at different points in its length, of perforated ticket-receivers arranged to project from one side of said shaft, and means adapted to restrict the turning of the shaft, whereby the ticketreceivers are raised up out of the way or lowered into a forward position, as required, essentially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

3. The combination, with shaft A, cranked or bent, as at h, of the catch D, the perforated ticket-receivers 0, carried by arms d,attached to one side of said shaft, and the holders or bearings b c for the shaft, provided with rests or supports ifor the arms of the receivers when down, substantially as shown and described. I

4. In an apparatus or device for checking and holding tickets on railroad passenger-cars, substantially as described, the ticket-receivers O of pocket-like construction, having an open end, 6, and divided into separate ticket-compartments, each of which is provided with a ticket-exposing opening, 9, essentially as and for the purposes herein set forth. JOHN BANKS MOINTYRE. Witnesses: p

W. F. CLINE, H. L. WIEsTER. 

